French Communist Party

Yeah.

The, the, the, the, the French Communist Party, it's a popular front-

Mm-hmm

... informed by the French history, which is where the popular front comes from even before it gets incorporated into Marxism.

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Not only did Romney do his Mormon mission, he did his mission in a blue-collar port city in Normandy that had no Mormon church at all and was known as a bastion of the French Communist Party.

young Mitt Romney would spend months knocking on doors without a single invitation to come in and talk.

So yeah, once you've preached the Book of Mormon to French communists, you can handle most campaign stops.

Nine thousand had died by 1958 in Algeria.

And so there are charges of abandonment and hatred of the officers of the French Communist Party, which seemed to be orchestrating, among other people orchestrating it, along with the intellectuals, opposition to the war.

And then there was the issue of torture, how topical, again, in our contemporary world in which we lived.

The army had revived an old concept of what they considered to be the real country, the true country, the true France, if you will, representing the real interests of France, that is, the army, and the legal country, which included some of those people who opposed them.

Kwok hoped to persuade the socialists to join the Third International, or Comintern, founded by Lenin in Russia, who stressed the importance of the colonial question and envisaged the liberation of nations through global revolution.

In December 1920, Nguyen Ai Quoc attended the Congress of the French Socialist Party, where he drew attention to exploitation of the French colonies and supported a proposal to join the Third International, which was passed by the majority and led to the formation of the French Communist Party in 1921.

Kwok founded the Intercolonial Union, where he worked alongside individuals from the French colonies.

He became a leading contributor to the organization's weekly journal, Le Barrière, and in 1922, he wrote a play entitled The Bamboo Dragon, which satirized the French puppet emperor Cai Dinh in Vietnam.

He later became a Marxist communist philosopher.

He joined the French Communist Party in 1948.

He met Helene Reitman-Lagotian in 1945.

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Et par exemple, le Parti communiste, sur sa base militante, fait souvent appel à... et on pourra le voir sûrement dans les prochains mois pour se, pour se financer.

Et les prêts de particuliers qui peuvent prêter au parti et ensuite, le parti peut prêter aux candidats.

Et pour reprendre l'exemple du RN, qui effectivement, dit ne toujours pas avoir trouvé de, de financement bancaire, alors auprès d'une banque française ou d'une banque dans l'espace économique européen, c'est une autre possibilité qui est accordée aux candidats, touche quand même aujourd'hui, grâce à son très bon score aux législatives, quinze millions d'euros d'argent public par an.

It was called the Democratic African Assembly, Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, the RDA.

Now, the RDA was supported by the French Communist Party.

Now, think about this.

This was the 40s, and they're being backed by a Communist Party.

And there's also a strand of nationalist thought that comes from kind of more Islamic pan-Arab influences.

So, for example, if you're thinking about the strand, the first strand I mentioned, Massali Hajj, who is considered the father of Algerian nationalism, and his first organizing attempts come in conjunction with the French Communist Party in France, right? So he is initially working in these Marxist communist circles of Algerian workers who had gone to the metropole to work in factories.

after World War I, but especially after World War II.

So yeah, Massali Hajj, you know, a huge personality in the history of Algerian nationalism, and he will have a very complicated relationship with the FLN.

As a result of his relationship with Guillaume, who was a communist sympathizer, Picasso shifted decidedly to the left.

In fact, after the end of the German occupation, he formally joined the French Communist Party.

In the following years, he painted party posters and a portrait of Stalin.

He accepted the Lenin Peace Prize in 1950 and attracted the attention of US authorities with Massacre in Korea.